JavaScript Jobs in Scotland

JavaScript (including ECMAScript)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for JavaScript skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited JavaScript over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 39 21 8
Rank change year-on-year -18 -13 -3
Permanent jobs citing JavaScript 647 516 893
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 9.65% 11.23% 14.97%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.33% 26.29% 33.26%
Number of salaries quoted 225 261 483
10th Percentile £34,000 £36,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +15.79%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,250 £66,250
90th Percentile £75,000 £87,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +14.29%

All Programming Languages
Scotland

JavaScript is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 3,733 1,963 2,685
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 55.66% 42.74% 45.02%
Number of salaries quoted 1,123 1,080 1,566
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +12.24%
75th Percentile £65,625 £75,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £83,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%

JavaScript
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing JavaScript as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for JavaScript in Scotland

JavaScript
Salary Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing JavaScript in Scotland.

Salary trend for JavaScript in Scotland

JavaScript
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing JavaScript in Scotland over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for JavaScript in Scotland

JavaScript
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing JavaScript within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 20 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow -25 425 £53,000 +0.95% 26
Edinburgh 0 146 £63,750 -1.92% 37
Aberdeen +3 39 £38,500 -9.41% 8
Dundee +4 19 £47,500 +14.46% 2
Fife 0 9 £40,000 -21.95%
Aberdeenshire - 2 £37,500 - 1
South Lanarkshire +2 1 £29,000 - 1
Lanarkshire -10 1 - - 7
JavaScript
UK

JavaScript
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 60 (9.27%) ArcGIS
1 60 (9.27%) GeoServer
2 53 (8.19%) FileNet
3 15 (2.32%) Cloud Foundry
3 15 (2.32%) SharePoint
4 7 (1.08%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (0.93%) CMS
6 5 (0.77%) Confluence
7 4 (0.62%) Umbraco
7 4 (0.62%) WordPress
8 1 (0.15%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.15%) IIS
8 1 (0.15%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 3 (0.46%) InVision
1 3 (0.46%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 7 (1.08%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.15%) Sage 200
2 1 (0.15%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 291 (44.98%) AWS
2 123 (19.01%) Azure
3 57 (8.81%) Amazon S3
4 30 (4.64%) GCP
4 30 (4.64%) SaaS
5 18 (2.78%) Serverless
6 17 (2.63%) Figma
7 13 (2.01%) Power Platform
8 11 (1.70%) SurveyMonkey
9 10 (1.55%) GitHub
9 10 (1.55%) Power Automate
10 9 (1.39%) BlazeMeter
10 9 (1.39%) PowerApps
11 7 (1.08%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (1.08%) Cloud Computing
12 5 (0.77%) Amazon ECS
12 5 (0.77%) Amazon SQS
12 5 (0.77%) ChatGPT
13 4 (0.62%) AWS Lambda
13 4 (0.62%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.85%) Internet
2 8 (1.24%) HTTP
3 7 (1.08%) MQTT
4 3 (0.46%) Intranet
5 2 (0.31%) Ethernet
6 1 (0.15%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (16.85%) NoSQL
2 88 (13.60%) Elasticsearch
3 75 (11.59%) PostgreSQL
4 69 (10.66%) Relational Database
5 61 (9.43%) GIS
6 60 (9.27%) QGIS
7 55 (8.50%) SQL Server
8 54 (8.35%) Apache Cassandra
9 31 (4.79%) MySQL
10 23 (3.55%) MongoDB
11 20 (3.09%) Looker
12 8 (1.24%) Big Data
12 8 (1.24%) Power BI
13 7 (1.08%) Oracle Database
13 7 (1.08%) RDBMS
13 7 (1.08%) Redis
14 4 (0.62%) DynamoDB
15 2 (0.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 1 (0.15%) MariaDB
16 1 (0.15%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 138 (21.33%) JUnit
2 91 (14.06%) Cypress.io
3 76 (11.75%) Jasmine
3 76 (11.75%) Karma Test Runner
4 71 (10.97%) Git
5 64 (9.89%) Selenium
5 64 (9.89%) WebDriver
6 60 (9.27%) Protractor
7 34 (5.26%) Maven
8 26 (4.02%) Cucumber
8 26 (4.02%) JIRA
9 23 (3.55%) Jenkins
10 15 (2.32%) Visual Studio Code
11 13 (2.01%) webpack
12 10 (1.55%) Gradle
13 9 (1.39%) JMeter
14 8 (1.24%) Visual Studio
15 7 (1.08%) Moq
16 6 (0.93%) JDeveloper
17 5 (0.77%) Eclipse
General
1 357 (55.18%) Finance
2 353 (54.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 321 (49.61%) Law
4 163 (25.19%) Marketing
5 159 (24.57%) Banking
6 114 (17.62%) Investment Banking
7 55 (8.50%) Social Skills
8 42 (6.49%) Legal
9 25 (3.86%) Financial Institution
9 25 (3.86%) Private Banking
10 22 (3.40%) Games
11 18 (2.78%) Front Office
12 15 (2.32%) Analytical Skills
12 15 (2.32%) Publishing
13 8 (1.24%) Manufacturing
13 8 (1.24%) Public Sector
14 7 (1.08%) Electronics
14 7 (1.08%) Multimedia
14 7 (1.08%) Tech for Good
14 7 (1.08%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 390 (60.28%) Software Engineer
2 169 (26.12%) Developer
3 139 (21.48%) Lead
4 128 (19.78%) Senior
5 127 (19.63%) Lead Software Engineer
6 107 (16.54%) Java Engineer
7 105 (16.23%) Java Software Engineer
8 89 (13.76%) Full Stack Engineer
9 88 (13.60%) Full Stack Software Engineer
10 74 (11.44%) Senior Software Engineer
11 69 (10.66%) Python Engineer
11 69 (10.66%) Python Software Engineer
12 53 (8.19%) AWS Engineer
13 49 (7.57%) AWS Software Engineer
14 43 (6.65%) UI Engineer
15 37 (5.72%) Lead Java Engineer
16 31 (4.79%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
17 30 (4.64%) Senior Developer
18 22 (3.40%) QA Engineer
19 21 (3.25%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 428 (66.15%) React
2 366 (56.57%) CSS
3 304 (46.99%) HTML
4 253 (39.10%) AngularJS
5 209 (32.30%) Spring
6 204 (31.53%) Node.js
7 159 (24.57%) jQuery
8 148 (22.87%) Twitter Bootstrap
9 147 (22.72%) JSON
10 133 (20.56%) Hibernate
10 133 (20.56%) J2EE
11 132 (20.40%) JMS
12 130 (20.09%) .NET
13 90 (13.91%) .NET Core
14 81 (12.52%) Kafka
15 69 (10.66%) Spring Boot
16 63 (9.74%) Jest
17 62 (9.58%) ASP.NET
18 60 (9.27%) OpenLayers
18 60 (9.27%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 155 (23.96%) Cloud Native
2 139 (21.48%) Algorithms
3 87 (13.45%) Data Structures
4 37 (5.72%) Public Cloud
5 32 (4.95%) Greenfield Project
6 24 (3.71%) Product Ownership
7 20 (3.09%) Market Risk
8 16 (2.47%) Mobile App
9 15 (2.32%) Distributed Applications
9 15 (2.32%) Management Information System
9 15 (2.32%) Private Cloud
10 7 (1.08%) Arduino
10 7 (1.08%) Augmented Reality
10 7 (1.08%) Credit Risk
10 7 (1.08%) IoT
10 7 (1.08%) Raspberry Pi
10 7 (1.08%) Virtual Reality
11 6 (0.93%) BBC
11 6 (0.93%) Distributed Systems
11 6 (0.93%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 14 (2.16%) Linux
2 11 (1.70%) Android
3 8 (1.24%) Ubuntu
4 3 (0.46%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.31%) Windows
6 1 (0.15%) Unix
6 1 (0.15%) VMS
6 1 (0.15%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 457 (70.63%) Agile
2 422 (65.22%) Software Engineering
3 298 (46.06%) SDLC
4 290 (44.82%) CI/CD
5 261 (40.34%) Operational Stability
6 199 (30.76%) Artificial Intelligence
6 199 (30.76%) Community of Practice
7 197 (30.45%) Machine Learning
8 168 (25.97%) Full Stack Development
9 145 (22.41%) DevOps
10 142 (21.95%) Visualisation
11 137 (21.17%) Microservices
12 133 (20.56%) Web Development
13 129 (19.94%) TDD
14 127 (19.63%) Continuous Improvement
15 86 (13.29%) Test Automation
16 85 (13.14%) Architectural Design
17 84 (12.98%) BDD
18 81 (12.52%) User Experience
19 80 (12.36%) Information Architecture
Programming Languages
1 250 (38.64%) Java
2 242 (37.40%) TypeScript
3 211 (32.61%) Python
4 183 (28.28%) SQL
5 129 (19.94%) C#
6 41 (6.34%) T-SQL
7 23 (3.55%) PHP
8 20 (3.09%) Groovy
9 12 (1.85%) Go
10 8 (1.24%) Bash
10 8 (1.24%) C
10 8 (1.24%) C++
11 7 (1.08%) Perl
11 7 (1.08%) Ruby
12 6 (0.93%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.46%) PL/SQL
13 3 (0.46%) R
14 2 (0.31%) PowerShell
15 1 (0.15%) Scala
15 1 (0.15%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 61 (9.43%) SC Cleared
1 61 (9.43%) Security Cleared
2 41 (6.34%) Degree
3 18 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (0.77%) Master's Degree
5 4 (0.62%) ISEB
5 4 (0.62%) ISTQB
6 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.15%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.15%) OCP
7 1 (0.15%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.15%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (11.28%) Accessibility
2 52 (8.04%) QA
3 20 (3.09%) PMO
4 15 (2.32%) WAI
5 3 (0.46%) WCAG
System Software
1 32 (4.95%) Docker
2 7 (1.08%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 90 (13.91%) Kubernetes
2 16 (2.47%) Terraform
3 5 (0.77%) Ansible
4 4 (0.62%) Istio
5 2 (0.31%) Grafana
6 1 (0.15%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.15%) Puppet
Vendors
1 65 (10.05%) Oracle
2 60 (9.27%) ESRI
3 44 (6.80%) Microsoft
4 20 (3.09%) Atlassian
5 17 (2.63%) Google
6 9 (1.39%) TOWER Software
7 7 (1.08%) NVIDIA
7 7 (1.08%) SAP
8 6 (0.93%) Apple
8 6 (0.93%) Facebook
8 6 (0.93%) Sony
8 6 (0.93%) Yahoo!
9 5 (0.77%) OpenAI
10 4 (0.62%) ForgeRock
11 2 (0.31%) Xamarin
12 1 (0.15%) Sage
12 1 (0.15%) ServiceNow
12 1 (0.15%) Sitecore
12 1 (0.15%) Vermilion
12 1 (0.15%) VMware